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Through a secret program called the Counter Intelligence Program or ‘COINTELPRO’, the United States government set out to “disrupt dissident political organisations using infiltration, psychological warfare, harassment through the legal system and extralegal force and violence”. Groups such as the Black Panther Party and others throughout the civil rights movement were targets of the program. COINTELPRO — The FBI’s War On Black America establishes a historical perspective on the measures initiated by the FBI which aimed to discredit black political figures and forces of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Combining declassified documents, interviews, rare footage and exhaustive research, it investigates the government’s role in the assassinations of Malcolm X, Fred Hampton, and Martin Luther King …
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My Trip to Waukaringa in Dec 2011 was to locate an abandoned gold mine spotted on Google Earth, but instead I was greeted with abandoned filth. What I found moved me, more than it should have. more
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Cool Stuff – David’s Personalized Necklace « Ponoko – Blog
Check out this interview with funky Ponoko member David Bizer, and also his video at the bottom of the post about his creation the Odb. Way out stuff! David, a Ponoko member from Berlin, has created one of the most awesomely unique necklaces we’ve seen so far.
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LCS seeks to nurture the oral heritage of minority cultures by developing respectful methodologies accompanied by appropriate technological solutions. We aim to enable indigenous communities to share and celebrate their traditional stories, poems or songs with community members dispersed across great distances. We thus promote a revitalization of their values and identity, helping communities to build capacity around their cultural capital, reconnect the generations and strengthen their proud voices in the global society.
Designed as a jumping-off point for parents to discuss drug use with their children, the “ Sound Advice Project ” converts voice recordings into bracelets with rings representing the waveform of a parent’s recorded admonishment. They’re $18. It’s unknown if there is any sort of vetting process for each recording, but I can testify that “Drugs can be fun and informative. And used responsibly can be part of any healthy person’s cognitive life” will just fit into the Flash applet’s six-second recording space. [via Animal
The Sound Advice Project, waveforms as bracelets - Boing Boing
